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Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line

Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line

Lee, A. Robert

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AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1898823065
ISBN13: 9781898823063
Publisher: Renaissance Books
Published: Aug 31 2011
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A unique take on modern life in Tokyo, Japan's capital city. A Japan of trains, everyday to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. Each to be savoured through a specific Tokyo line: the Odakyu. Pitched as creative text and colour illustrations, Tokyo Commute offers on-track and off-track observations. A gallery of mirrors, musings, memories. This is less documentary than iconography, a poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette. It offers a wry diary of month-and-weekday observations, a map of Shinjuku as key station and gathering place, a run of notable Tokyo locations--from the national bunraku theatre to a Kawasaki sludge recycling centre. Other Odakyu travel involves the Hakone open air art gallery, Narita as both airport and temple-complex, Yokohama as history and Chinatown. Essential reading for first-time, and second-time, visitors, and even regular commuters.

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